Senior Bookkeeper

 

Recruiter:

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Job Ref:

Senior Bookkeeper

Date posted:

Monday, October 31, 2022

Location:

PortElizabeth, South Africa

Salary:

R15 000 to R18 500 per month CTC commensurate with experience and qualification


SUMMARY:
Senior Bookkeeper

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Job Position: Senior Bookkeeper

Ref: 3829

Location: Port Elizabeth (near Deal Party)
Salary: R15 000 to R18 500 per month CTC commensurate with experience and qualification

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Qualifications / Requirements:

  • Bookkeeping experience, gained in a FMCG retail
  • Proven and strong Bookkeeping background and ability to cope well under pressure and deal with high volumes
  • Confident, assertive, strong and deadline orientated
  • Experience with:
    • Books up to trial balance level
    • Cashbook control and reconciliations, including to bank statements
    • Review creditors supplier recons
    • Load creditors / sundry payments on the bank
    • Debtors control
    • Weekly cash forecast
    • Payroll
    • Submit Emp201’s
    • Pastel and Excel experience

Key Performance Areas:

  • Sales:
    • Complete weekly, monthly sales report for FMCG retailers and senior management
    • Ensure collection of few debtors sales (mainly internal and related companies)
    • Ensure debtors are credit worthy
  • Suppliers:
    • Review Creditors Clerks’ supplier’s recons
    • Load creditors and/or sundry payments on bank and/or check creditors payments and release payments
    • Ensure creditors gets paid timeously to utilise discount
  • Cash Book and banking:
    • Process the cashbook payments and receipts accurately in Pastel Evolution
    • Reconcile cashbook to bank statement daily
    • Control cheque books, internal discount cards and loan vouchers
    • Ensure enough cash in bank for debit orders, payments and transfer excess cash to investment account
    • Weekly cash forecast of creditors that must get paid
    • Check / oversee staff performing parts of above mention functions
  • Payroll:
    • Prepare the small internal staff payroll
    • Ensure hours, loan deductions, overtime, expenses are recorded correctly
    • Manage record keeping filing of labour issues
    • Calculate Department Managers incentives accurately and with General Managers approval
    • Submit Emp201’s monthly and Emp501’s twice a year
    • Check the larger outsourced staff payroll hours to the time keeping system
    • Check the outsourced payroll deductions are correct
    • Liaise with outsourced HR on any corrections or errors, timeously
    • Check that ETI for month have been calculated correctly
    • Report any issues to the General Manager
    • Prepare labour report monthly
    • Check and oversee/train staff performing parts of these above mentioned functions
  • Audits, Stock Counts and Monthly Management accounts:
    • Assist in the evenings with stock counts twice a year, if required
    • Audit stock count top values next day to ensure system records stock accurately
    • Prepare Pastel set of books to trail balance each month and prepare Management Account(s) and vat returns for Senior Management to review
    • Reconcile all accounts by month end and meet deadlines for Management Accounts deadlines
    • Assist Auditors on yearly audit
    • Reconcile and balance related parties loan accounts
    • On the monthly basis forward a completed and verified trial balance to Group Accountant to prepare the management account
  • Ad hoc duties:
    • Complete insurance claims
    • Help other branches out when Bookkeeper is on leave

 

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